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Fraser-Hoyer House

historic home located at West Haverstraw in Rockland County, New York

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ5493553 ↗
Source-derived summary

Fraser-Hoyer House is a historic home located at West Haverstraw in Rockland County, New York. It was built about 1812 and is a two-story, five-bay, rectangular frame dwelling with a hipped roof and stone foundation. It features Federal style details.

The house of William Smith had been built previously on this site in 1770.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

Editorial summary

“Fraser-Hoyer House” enters the record as historic home located at West Haverstraw in Rockland County, New York. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Fraser-Hoyer, House and historic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1812, 1770, 1976—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Fraser-Hoyer, House and historic.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Fraser-Hoyer House” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Fraser-Hoyer, House and historic provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5493553. Authority coordinates are 41.211, -73.988. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1812, 1770 and 1976.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Fraser-Hoyer House”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Fraser-Hoyer House primary sources, Fraser-Hoyer House archive and Fraser-Hoyer research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Fraser-Hoyer House”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Fraser-Hoyer House” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.